- Kirby Goidel. 2014. “America’s Failing Experiment: How Too Much Democracy Undermines Our National Leaders”. Rowman & Littlefield.
- Davis, Nicholas T., Kirby Goidel, Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Guy D. Whitten, and Clifford Young. 2019. “The
Political Consequences of Nativism: The Impact of Nativist Sentiment on Party Support∗.” Social Science
Quarterly 100: 466-479. (As part of a special issue devoted to nativism). - Goidel, Kirby., Keith Gaddie, and Marco Ehrl. 2017. “Watching the News and Support for Democracy: Why
Media Systems Matter.” Social Science Quarterly: 98: 836–855. doi:10.1111/ssqu.12430 - Kirby Goidel, Brian Smentkowski, and Craig Freeman. 2016. “Perceptions of Threat to Religious Liberty.”
PS: Political Science & Politics 49(3): 426-432. - Wanyun Shao & Kirby Goidel. 2016. “Seeing is Believing? An Examination of Perceptions of Local Weather
Conditions and Climate Change Among Residents in the U.S. Gulf Coast,” Risk Analysis 36 (11): 2136-2157.
Kirby Goidel
Professor
- Areas of Speciality
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- American Politics
- Public Administration and Public Policy
- Contact
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- kgoidel@tamu.edu
- LASB 378
- Professional Links
Research Interests
- Public Opinion & Survey Research
- Media & Politics
- Political Communication
- Public Policy
- American Politics
Biography
Kirby Goidel is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. His research is motivated by questions of democratic governance, including whether citizens are up to the task of democratic governance., the willingness and ability of elites to manipulate public opinion, and the institutional mechanisms which translate democratic inputs into policy outcomes. His most recent project investigates how the public understands democracy and how those understanding influence political processes and outcomes. Dr. Goidel currently serves as a co-editor of the Social Science Quarterly. Previously, he served as the director of the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University, the Scripps Howard Professor of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, and the founding director of LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab. Dr. Goidel is the author of Misreading the Bill of Rights: Top Ten Myths Concerning Your Rights & Liberties, America’s Failing Experiment: How We The People Have Become the Problem and edited and contributed to Political Polling in a Digital Age: The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion.
Courses Taught
- Political Communication
- Survey Research
- Public Opinion
- Advanced Research Methods in Communication